Cultural Production of Economic Rationalities

克拉克大学 这个建议是为研究，探讨一般信念和具体的理由之间的中间地带，经济行动使用的话语演员在新英格兰的工业化（1790年至1860年）作为案例材料。 社会理论研究采用区域内经济行为者研究，涉及三种类型的分析。 首先，对经济合理性的文化话语形成的哲学理论概念进行澄清，这将最终导致“文化生产秩序”概念。 第二，对新英格兰早期经济行为体的话语构成和经济形态的文化建构进行新的历史研究。 第三，工作将综合理论与实证研究结果的文化生产的新英格兰工业化。 主要的实证研究涉及不同类型的现代制造系统，这些系统是从工业化前的新英格兰道德经济中产生的。 当地的历史工作将在几个小生产者迅速成为现代资本主义企业家的城镇进行。 这项研究的意义在于它表明经济活动具有文化根源。 第二，将区域经济发展置于更广泛的文化框架中。

Clark U. This proposal is for research which examines the middle ground between general beliefs and specific reasons for economic action using the discourses of actors in New England's industrialization (1790-1860) as case material. The social theoretic research uses an intra-regional study of economic actors and involves three types of analysis. First, a clarification of the philosophical-theoretical notion of the cultural-discursive formation of economic rationality is intended which will culminate in a `cultural order of production` concept. Second, new historical research will be initiated on the discursive constitution of early economic actors in New England and the cultural construction of economic forms. Third, the work will synthesize theory with empirical findings in a cultural production of New England industrialization. The main empirical research involves distinct types of modern manufacturing systems which have emerged from the pre-industrial New England moral economy. Local history work will be carried out in several towns where small producers rapidly became modern capitalist entrepreneurs. The research is significant because it shows that economic activities have cultural origins. Second, the work will place regional economic development in a broader cultural framework.